KABUL (AIP): Counter narcotics police have seized huge amount of opium and heroin in Helmand province Aug. 23, interior ministry said Tuesday. The interior ministry said in a statement that counter narcotics police seized 800 kg opium in Registan...

JALALABAD (AIP): Several ballot boxes being airlifted to capital of Noristan province from different districts are missing after it fell from the plane, governor said Tuesday. The ballot boxes were being shifted to provincial capital Paron from th...

KANDAHAR (AIP): A powerful car bomb blast rocked Kandahar City, causing casualties, police said Tuesday (Aug. 25). Muhammad Shah Khan, deputy police chief of Kandahar told Afghan Islamic Press that the explosion took place at Greshk Bus Stand at t...

KABUL (AIP): Preliminary results of Afghan polls announced here on Tuesday (Aug. 25) show that President Hamid Karzai is slightly ahead of his main rival Dr. Abdullah. Independent Election Commission of Afghanistan (IEC) said 10 per cent ballots have...

KUNDUZ (AIP): Taliban on Monday (Aug. 24) claimed they had killed six Afghan police during an attack on check post in northern Takhar province last night. Talibna attacked a security post in Hazrat Bostan area of Darqad district, Takhar province,...

KABUL (AIP): Afghan and international security forces detained four suspected Taliban during separate operation yesterday (Aug. 23) in Wardak and Paktia provinces, ISAF said Monday. The joint force searched a series of buildings in the remote mou...

JALALABAD (AIP): Two border police were injured today (Aug. 24) in a roadside bomb blast in Khugyani district of eastern Nangarhar province, an official said Monday. Engineer Muhammad Turab, district chief of Khugyani told Afghan Islamic Press tha...

KHOST (AIP): Hezb-e-Islami (Hekmatyar) on Monday (Aug. 24) claimed that their fighters killed 10 foreign forces in Paktia province. Engineer Abdullah Fidai, spokesman of Hezb-e-Islami (Hekmatyar) told Afghan Islamic Press that they destroyed a veh...

KABUL (AIP): Twenty-five development projects were inaugurated in Behsud district of Wardak province, a spokesman said Monday (Aug. 24). Giving details to Afghan Islamic Press spokesman of Wardak governor Shahidullah Shahid said that the projects...